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Reminds me of YQL (http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/) - one of the more underrated things by Yahoo for developers.

There are differing opinions here on whether this is a good way, but give it a shot!

We're bootstrappers and don't mind serving a niche if there's enough value to be generated (and reaped).

This is something we're debating. If suppose data was to sync with a folder on your Dropbox, we can't guarantee its integrity should you decide to remove or move it, whether accidentally or intentionally. This isn't unsolvable, but definitely something to think about.

> We would like to conclude the post saying that it was not a marketing gimmick from our end. Being hackers ourselves, we just wanted to check if HN algo was vulnerable to such tricks.

Ok does anyone buy this?

Can't believe I'm meeting all sorts of cool guys in this thread - expect something in your mailbox soon. :)

Hi Matt, it is the latter. I looked up your website and would love to chat more if you are up to it.

We'll chat soon, David.

And Tumblr seems to be down. Thank you Murphy.

There's the photography community and then there's everyone else. For everyone else there's Facebook (don't mind shitty photo quality and management). I'm no fan of Instagram, and even if I was, I wouldn't stop using a DSLR.

I've been with Flickr for years now, am a Pro user, and nothing else comes close for a photography enthusiast. IMHO all it would take is few key redesigns and better mobile apps that would make the photography community really happy to stick with it.

They waste time and energy optimizing their code and architecture for a million users, when they only have a 100.

The point of my post is that nothing you read or hear prepares you for what's actually coming. The only way to know is to dive in.

Not in the next two months. Will keep everyone posted when that happens.

Expectations from software are lower than other products like cars, televisions. A car breaking down in the middle of a drive to work is far more "severe" an incident than Internet Explorer hanging and crashing. Further, software engineering as a field is very very young, with a far lower barrier to entry, resulting in products and processes which are much less evolved and mature compared to other industries. I think these are important factors why software tends to have lower quality bars than cars or physical products.

For films and music the audio data may have too much noise, but TV programmes with low background noise (news, documentary, interview) with available Closed Captions (CC) are good training sources. CC transcripts are enforced by broadcasting regulators so they should be highly accurate.

The big problem with using these sources is the huge vocabulary. Speech recognition works better for smaller vocabularies than bigger.

It is hilarious, read the whole piece.

It would be interesting to diff the original applications and those after the money announcement to gauge the interest and quality. I think quality startups will want to reach a certain level (prototype, proof of concept) and then money will find them. The blanket offer for investment without knowing the startups or prior relationships is a bit too good to be true?

Great list. Google maps mashup, anyone?

This is one of the crazy things I've come across - one moment there's a call for YC rejects to hang out together, next day there's cash for equity! Since this is an experiment maybe it would help to keep it simple in the original form and leave investment out of it till the end of summer?

Would it be smarter to wait and see what they have, in case we need to tweak stuff (to differentiate)?

Just in time for my compilation (bit.ly bundle) of interesting reads in tech controversies: http://bit.ly/openletters

Great. Look forward to the updates.

I ported it to regular user script: https://github.com/adsahay/Comfy-Helvetica-style-for-HN

Works in Firefox and Chrome. Why should Safari have all the fun? ;)

Darn, it seems Tumblr is acting up again. Url is not loading for everyone.

It is a really tough problem no doubt. We use interviewstreet.com to screen candidates before spending time on an interview, saves us a lot of time.